Erin M. Kearns
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PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
*graduate student; **undergraduate student
  1. Fisher, D. & Kearns, E.M. (Forthcoming). "The Theorizing of Terrorism within Criminology." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
  2. Kearns, E.M. & Delehanty, C. (Online first). "The Fast & The Furious...Torturous?: Examining the Impact of Torture Scenes in Popular Films in Public Perceptions of Torture Policy." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
  3. Ghazi-Tehrani, A. & Kearns, E.M. (Online first). "Biased Coverage of Bias Crime: Examining Differences in Media Coverage of Hate Crimes and Terrorism." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.
  4. Kearns, E.M., Federico, C., Asal, V., Walsh, J., Betus, A., Lemieux, A. (2022). "Intergroup Images, Grievance, and Support for Protest and Terrorism." Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 15(1): 17-39.
  5. Dolliver, M. & Kearns, E.M. (2021). "Is it Terrorism: Public Perceptions, Media, and Labeling the Las Vegas Shooting." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 45(1): 1-19.
  6. *Betus, A., Kearns, E.M. & Lemieux, A. (2021). "How Perpetrator Identity (Sometimes) Influences Media Framing Attacks as 'Terrorism' or 'Mental Illness.'" Communication Research,  48(8): 1133-1156.
  7. Kearns, E.M. (2021). "Claims and Attributions: Why Take Credit for Terrorism?" Terrorism & Political Violence, 33(1): 164-193.    *Winner of the 2016 American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology Outstanding Student Paper Award                                 *Winner of the 2015 National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Symposium Best Student Paper Award
  8. Kearns, E.M., *Betus, A. & Lemieux, A. (2021). "When Data Don't Matter: Exploring Public Perceptions of Terrorism." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 44(4): 285-309..
  9. ​Lowrey-Kinberg, B., *Mellinger, H. & Kearns, E.M. (2020). "How Social Dominance​ Orientation Shapes Perceptions of Police." Policing: An International Journal, 43(4): 607-624.
  10. Delehanty, C. & Kearns, E.M. (2020). "Wait, There's Torture in Zootopia?: Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies," Perspectives on Politics, 18(3): 835-850. [replication materials].
  11. Kearns, E.M., Asal, V., Walsh, J. Federico, C. & Lemieux, A. (2020). "Political Action as a Function of Political Grievance and Social Identity: An Experimental Approach." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 43(11): 941-958.
  12. Kearns, E.M., **Ashooh, E. & Lowrey-Kinberg, B. (2020). "Racial Differences in Conceptualizing Legitimacy and Trust in Police." American Journal of Criminal Justice, 45: 190-214.
  13. Kearns, E.M. (2020). ​"Exploring Officer Views of Community Policing in Counterterrorism." Police Practice and Research, 21(1): 18-32.
  14. **Shupard, M. & Kearns, E.M. (2019). "Why Do Officers Support Community Policing?: A Cross-Departmental Comparison and Cross-Temporal Comparison." Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 37: 665-680.
  15. Kearns, E.M., *Betus, A. & Lemieux, A. (2019). ​"Why Do Some Terrorist Attacks Receive More Media Attention Than Others?"  Justice Quarterly, 36(6): 985-1022. ​[replication materials].
  16. Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2018). "If Torture is Wrong, What about 24?: Torture and the Hollywood Effect." Crime & Delinquency, 64(12): 1568-1589.
  17. Lemieux, A., Kearns, E.M., Asal, V. & Walsh, J. (2017). "Support for Political Mobilization, Protest, and Terrorism in Egypt and Morocco: An Online Experimental Study." Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 10(2-3):124-142. 
  18. Kearns, E.M. (2017). "Why Are Some Police Officers More Supportive of Community Policing with Minorities than Others?" Justice Quarterly, 34(7): 1213-1245.
  19. Kearns, E.M. (2015). "The Study of Torture: Why It Persists, Why Perceptions of It are Malleable, and Why It is Difficult to Eradicate."  Laws, 5(1): 1-15.
  20. Kearns, E.M., **Conlon, B.L. & Young, J.K. (2014). "Lying about Terrorism." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 37(5): 422 - 439.

BOOK 
  1. Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2020). "Tortured Logic: Why Some Americans Support for Torture in Counterterrorism."  Columbia University Press.

BOOK CHAPTERS 
  1. Kearns, E.M. & *Senn, S. (Forthcoming). "Examining Officer Support for Community Policing in Counterterrorism Over Time." In Exploring Contemporary Police Challenges: A Global Perspective, eds. Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovi, Jon Maskly, Christopher M. Donner, Irena Cajner. Mraovi, and Dilip Das. Routledge.
  2. Kearns, E.M. & *Betus, A. (Forthcoming). "Asymmetric Coverage of Asymmetric Violence: How U.S. Print News Media Report Far-Right Terrorism." In Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States, eds. Barbara Perry, Jeff Gruenewald & Ryan Scrivens. Palgrave.
  3. Young, J.K. & Kearns, E.M. (2016). "Empirical Challenges to Studying Terrorism and Homicide," in The Handbook on Homicide, eds. Fiona Brookman, Edward R. Maguire, and Mike Maguire. Wiley-Blackwell.
  4. Kearns, E.M. & Young, J.K. (2013). "Military Tactics in Civil War," in The Routledge Companion to Civil War Studies, eds. Edward Newman and Karl DeRouen. Rutledge.


SELECT MEDIA COVERAGE
Interviews:
  • Talking Terror, (September 13,  2021)
  • The Criminology Academy, (May 17, 2021)
  • The Loopcast, (February 24, 2021)
  • Untenured Tracks, (October 8, 2019)
  • Police Chief Magazine, (September 2019)
  • CBC Radio - Vancouver on the Coast, (August 6, 2019)
  • NPR's "All Things Considered," (March 23, 2018)
  • "Humanity in the Headlines," (February 24, 2018)
  • Colorado Public Radio, (November 9, 2017)
  • ABC Australia, "Radio National," (July 6, 2017)
  • NPR's "Morning Edition," (June 20, 2017)
  • NPR's "Hidden Brain" podcast with Shankar Vedantam, (June 19, 2017)
  • "CBS/KCBS San Francisco with Susan Kennedy," (March 19, 2017)
  • "CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin," (December 10, 2014)

Web-Based Publications:
  • Betus, A., Kearns, E.M & Lemieux, A., "Who's a Terrorist and Who's Mentally Ill? We Look at 10 years of News Coverage to Find Out," Washington Post (August 8, 2019).
  • Kearns, E.M. & Amarasingam, A. "How News Media Talk about Terrorism & What the Evidence Shows," Just Security (April 5, 2019)
  • Kearns, E.M. "An Expert on Political Violence Explains why the NRA's Ads Matter," The Trace (August 8, 2017)
  • Kearns, E.M., Betus, A. & Lemieux, A., "Yes, the Media Do Underreport Some Terrorist Attacks, Just Not the Ones Most People Think of," Washington Post (March 13, 2017)
  • Kearns, E.M., "Torture Doesn't Works, So Why are We Still Discussing It?" Political Violence at a Glance (February 2, 2017)
  • Kearns, E.M. & Young, J., "Dramatic depictions of torture increase support for it," Washington Post (December 12, 2014)

My Work Featured In:
  • United Nations Secretary-General's press encounter at the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, (March 22, 2019)
  • The Economist, "Is right-wing terrorism on the rise in the West?," (March 18, 2019)
  • The Economist, "Why do terrorists claim credit for some attacks but not others?," (February 1, 2019)
  • The Guardian, "Terror Attacks by Muslims Receive 357% more press attention, study finds," (July 20, 2018)
  • Think Progress, "America has a Skewed Perception of What Qualifies at Terrorism," (October 4, 2017)
  • Foreign Policy, "The Rohingya Are the New Palestinians," (September 26, 2017)
  • MSNBC with Ari Melber, "Study: Media Overrepresents Muslims as Terrorists," (July 2, 2017)
  • Think Progress, "Non-Muslim Attackers Get a Lot Less Media Coverage than Those Who Claim Islam," (June 19, 2017)
  • Cato Institute, "GAO Weights in on 'Countering Violent Extremism'," (April 13, 2017)
  • Reason, "Do Muslims Commit Most U.S. Terrorist Attacks?" (March 24, 2017)
  • The Independent, "News Media Do Under-Report Some Terrorist Attacks - Just Not Those Involving Islamist Extremists," (March 13, 2017)
  • Pacific Standard, "Can Jack Bauer Convince You to Torture?" (January 5, 2015)
  • Vox, "Torture is a culture. Releasing the Senate report is a way of fighting it," (December 11, 2014)
  • The Washington Post, "The Senate CIA report says enhanced interrogation doesn't work. But Hollywood thinks it does," (December 10, 2014)
  • Vox, "'24' makes people support torture, and other discoveries political scientists made this year,"  (September 8, 2014)
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